Device for holding cows&#39; tails.



J. AERNI & J. O. VENDEN.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING COWS TAILS.

APPLICATION FILED MAYIB, 1916.

Patented Mar. 13, 1917;

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JOSUA AERNI AND JOSEPH 0. VENDEN, OF GULER, WASHINGTON.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING COWS TAILS.

7 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

Application filed May 18, 1916. Serial No. 98,472.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSUA AERNI and JOSEPH O. VENDEN, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Guler, in the county of Klickitat and Stateof WVashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDevices for Holding Cows Tails; and we do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and tothe letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a partof this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in carriagedevices for attachment to mechanism for holding cows tails.

To this end and to such others as the invention may pertain, the sameconsists in the novel construction of the device and in the peculiarcombination, arrangement and adaptation of parts, all as will'be morefully hereinafter described, shown in the accompanying drawings and thenspecifically defined in the appended claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings which,with the numerals of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisspecification and in which Figure l is a perspective view showing ourinvention in its operative position.

Fig. 2 is an end view of the carrier.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the tail engaging member, and

Fig. 4 is a section on line H of Fig. 2.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by numeral, 1designates a horizontally disposed track wire and 8 designates a bar,portions 3 of which are bent parallel to each other and are providedwith registering apertures to receive the wire 1 upon which the deviceis movably held. A second bar, designated by numeral 2, has arms 2 and 2bent as shown, the former of which is notched, as shown in Fig. 3, forthe reception of the rod i, the upper end of which has a head 6 adaptedto rest upon the upper surface of the bent portion 2. The other arm 2*of the bar 2 has a recess 5 formed in one edge thereof, as shown clearlyin Fig. 4: of the drawings, which is widened near its inner end toreceive the rod 4. A suitable flexible cord 7 is fastened to the lowerend of the rod 4: and connects to a tail engaging member 8.

The usefulness of the device will at once be understood when it will benoted that, when the device is to be moved from one cow to another, itis simply necessary to release the engagement of the tail-engagingmember 8, after which the carrier may be moved a suflicient distancealong the wire 1 to adapt it for use for the next cow to be milked.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim to be new is Acarriage device for supporting cow tail holding devices, comprising abar having portions bent parallel to each other and apertured to receivea track wire, a second bar having laterally extending arms, one of whichis fastened to said first referred to bar and provided with a recess inits edge, the other arm having a notched end, a rod engaging said notchand recess, said rod having a head resting upon the upper surface of thenotched arm.

In testimony whereof we hereunto aflix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

JOSUA AERNI. JOSEPH O. VENDEN. WVitnesses:

GENEVIEVE LORD, IDA L. SMITH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. G.

